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History on the 19th of September

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19 Sep 1853 RELIGIOUS Baptist pioneer missionary J. Hudson Taylor, 21, set sail from England to China. In 1865, Taylor founded the China Inland Mission, now known as Overseas Missionary Fellowship. Its U.S. branch is HQ'd today in Robesonia, PA.
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19 Sep 1918 WW2 The German government issued a diplomatic protest against the American use of shotguns against German soldiers in the trenches, noting that they caused "unnecessary suffering". 
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19 Sep 1919 WW2 While living at home near Los Angeles, California, United States, Joseph Rochefort received a letter from the United States Navy Bureau of Navigation asking him to return to service aboard tanker Cuyama based out of San Diego, California. Rochefort would readily agree to return to naval service. 
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19 Sep 1922 WW2 Roderick Carr was promoted to the rank of flying officer in the British Royal Air Force. 
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19 Sep 1923 WW2 Hikokichi Ijuin stepped down as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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19 Sep 1925 WW2 While serving aboard USS Arizona in California, United States, Joseph Rochefort received orders to report to the Chief of Naval Operations in Washington DC, United States for a new assignment. 
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19 Sep 1930 WW2 Douglas MacArthur departed from the Philippine Islands. 
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19 Sep 1931 WW2 Japanese troops occupied Mukden, China. 
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19 Sep 1935 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived at Singapore. 
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19 Sep 1936 WW2 The Spanish Republican submarine B6 was sunk by Nationalist naval forces, led by the destroyer Velasco, off Cape Penas near Santander, Spain. 
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19 Sep 1937 WW2 The 2nd Marine Brigade headquarters and the US 6th Marine Regiment arrived in Shanghai, China. The US Marine Corps presence in Shanghai was now 2,536-strong. 
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19 Sep 1938 WW2 The United Kingdom and France recommended Czechoslovakia to cede Sudetenland to Germany. 
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19 Sep 1938 RELIGIOUS The Carpatho-Russian Diocese of the Eastern Rite of the U.S.A. was canonized as a diocese of the Greek Orthodox Church. Father Orestes Chornock, Orthodox bishop of Agathonikia, was made Metropolitan of the new diocese.
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19 Sep 1939 WW2 En route toward Changsha, Hunan Province, China, Japanese troops used poison gas against Chinese defensive positions along the Sinchiang River. 
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19 Sep 1939 WW2 Zang Shiyi was captured by Japanese troops in Liaoning Province, China. 
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19 Sep 1939 WW2 Chinese forces recaptured Cunqianjie near Gao'an, Jiangxi Province, China. 
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19 Sep 1939 WW2 Germans put down a rebellion in Czechoslovakia. 
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19 Sep 1939 WW2 Adolf Hitler entered Danzig and again proposed a peace with Britain and France, provided Germany was allowed to retain the territory that Germany had already seized. He also referred to "weapons with which we ourselves can not be attacked", which led to speculation that Germany is developing secret weapons. 
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19 Sep 1939 WW2 Commander of the British Expeditionary Force Lord Gort arrived in France. 
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19 Sep 1939 WW2 While flying a reconnaissance missiong in a unarmed Polish aircraft, Josef Frantisek attacked advancing German columns by throwing hand grenades from the cockpit near Kamionka Strumilowa, Poland (now Kamianka-Buzka, Ukraine). 
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19 Sep 1939 WW2 The construction of Graf Zeppelin was halted temporarily as Erich Raeder and Hermann Göring competed for resources. 
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19 Sep 1939 WW2 West of Warsaw, Poland, at the bend of the Vistula River, German troops imprisoned 170,000 Polish troops as they surrendered. 
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19 Sep 1939 WW2 The German Army told the SS organization to hold off the rounding up and mass murder of Polish Jews until Dec 1939 when the Army would be out of the area. 
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19 Sep 1939 WW2 The first official British casualty list was published to the public. 
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19 Sep 1940 WW2 Wellington, Hampden, and Whitley bombers of the British RAF attacked German invasion barges in ports along the French coast. One Hampden bomber was lost. After the attack, Adolf Hitler ordered the barges to disperse to minimize further losses. Thus far, 214 of the 1,918 barges assembled for the planned invasion had been destroyed by British aerial attacks. 
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19 Sep 1940 WW2 British Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin announced that, as of the end of Aug 1940, there were 51,261 registered conscientious objectors in Britain. 
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19 Sep 1940 WW2 British bombers sank German torpedo boat T-3 at Le Havre, France, killing 9 and wounding 12. T-3 would later be raised and repaired. 
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19 Sep 1940 WW2 Italian submarines Archimede and Guglielmotti and destroyers Leone, Pantera, Battisti, and Manin searched in the Red Sea for Allied Convoy BN-5. They failed to locate their target. 
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19 Sep 1940 WW2 Italian submarine Comandante Faa Di Bruno attacked a ship 700 miles west of Gibraltar without success. Italian submarine Guglielmo sank Spanish trawler Almirante Jose De Carranza in the Bay of Biscay north of Spain; only 1 survived. 
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19 Sep 1940 WW2 Italian submarine Serpente mis-identified Italian submarine Marcantonio Colonna as hostile and fired a torpedo 59 miles south of Italy. The torpedo missed. 
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19 Sep 1940 WW2 Rohan Amerasekera signed up for the British Royal Air Force. 
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19 Sep 1940 WW2 During the Imperial Conference, Prince Hiroyasu of Fushimi expressed concerns regarding the alliance between Japan and Germany. 
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19 Sep 1940 WW2 Bad weather restricted aerial activity during the day, thus the Germans only launched reconnaissance missions. 5 Ju 88 bombers dispatched on reconnaissance missions were lost, including one that was forced to land at RAF Oakington at 1500 hours due to engine trouble. Overnight, London, England, United Kingdom was bombed several times between 2000 hours and midnight. 
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19 Sep 1941 WW2 Japanese troops crossed the Milo River during advance on Changsha. 
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19 Sep 1941 WW2 Lord Woolton called the black market in Britain "a thorn in our side". 
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19 Sep 1941 WW2 German submarine U-74 sank Canadian corvette HMCS Lévis of Allied convoy SC-44 125 miles east of Iceland at 0603 hours; 18 were killed, 40 survived). At 1433 hours, German submarine U-372 attacked the same convoy 100 miles east of Iceland, sinking already-damaged British ship Baron Pentland; 2 were killed, 39 survived). 
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19 Sep 1941 WW2 Cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Neptune, and HMAS Hobart arrived in Alexandria, Egypt after delivering supplies to Tobruk, Libya and began to embark troops of the UK 70th Infantry Division. 
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19 Sep 1941 WW2 Light cruiser Voroshilov bombarded Axis troop positions near Sevastopol, Russia. 
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19 Sep 1941 WW2 German troops captured Kiev, Ukraine, along with 600,000 prisoners, 2,500 tanks, and 1,000 artillery pieces. 
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19 Sep 1942 WW2 The Allied attack on Jalo, Libya was called off. 
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19 Sep 1942 WW2 The US Marine Corps Air Station, Eagle Mountain Lake was established at Fort Worth, Texas, United States under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Harold Leo. It was to function as a glider training base. 
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19 Sep 1942 WW2 German submarine U-552 sank British anti-submarine trawler HMS Alouette 50 miles southwest of Lisbon, Portugal at 0300 hours; 17 were killed, 27 survived. At 0648 hours, U-516 sank US merchant ship Wichita 300 miles northeast of Barbados; all 50 aboard were killed. At 1546 hours, U-156 sank British ship Quebec City 500 miles southwest of Liberia; 5 were killed, 41 survived. At 1937 hours, U-512 sank Spanish merchant ship Monte Gorbea 60 miles east of Martinique; 52 were killed, 27 survived. 
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19 Sep 1942 WW2 USS Amberjack damaged Japanese transport Shirogane Maru in the Bougainville Strait off Australian Papua at 1000 hours; 3 were killed. 
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19 Sep 1942 WW2 118 British bombers (72 Wellington, 41 Halifax, 5 Stirling) attacked Saarbrücken, Germany, generally missing military targets and instead destroying 13 houses and killing 1 civilian; 5 bombers were lost on this mission. 68 Lancaster bombers and 21 Stirling bombers attacked München, Germany; 6 bombers were lost on this mission. 
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19 Sep 1942 WW2 The 28 surviving merchant ships of Allied convoy PQ-18 reached the Dvina River near Arkhangelsk, Russia. 
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19 Sep 1942 WW2 Soviet 24th Army, 66th Army, and 1st Guards Army attempted another counterattack north of Stalingrad, Russia near Kotluban, but it was repulsed by German XIV Panzer Corps. 
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19 Sep 1942 WW2 Excursion steamer Greater Buffalo was renamed Sable. 
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19 Sep 1943 WW2 USS S-28 fired a torpedo, and missed, at what was believed to be an unescorted freighter. The freighter turned out to be a Japanese warship, which attacked with depth charges for 10 minutes without causing any damage. The warship departed after one hour of unsuccessful detection. At 1916 hours, she detected the coverted gunboat Katsura Maru Number Two; she attacked the Japanese ship at 1943, registering two hits, and sank the ship at 1946 hours. S-28 dove in anticipationg of a depth charge attack which did not take place. 
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19 Sep 1943 WW2 Italian resistance forced German troops off the island of Sardinia, Italy. 
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19 Sep 1943 WW2 Orde Wingate arrived in Delhi, India. 
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19 Sep 1943 WW2 Oberleutnant Franz Schmidt of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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19 Sep 1943 WW2 The Australian 7th Infantry Division opened an offensive in the Ramu valley, Australian New Guinea. 
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19 Sep 1943 WW2 47 Polish prisoners of war attempted to escape from the Oflag IV-B camp at Dössel-Warburg, Germnay; 9 would make it to neutral territory, but the remaining 38 would be captured and sent to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp for execution. 
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19 Sep 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More of Air Group 25 on board. 
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19 Sep 1943 WW2 In Italy, British and American troops of US Fifth Army marched from Salerno toward Naples. 
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19 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Harder sank cargo ship Kachisan Maru off Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes. 
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19 Sep 1943 WW2 Naka departed Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. 
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19 Sep 1943 WW2 John Basilone participated in a bond tour event in his home town of Raritan and the neighboring town of Somerville in New Jersey, United States. 
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19 Sep 1943 WW2 Submarine Gabilan was launched at Groton, Connecticut, United States, sponsored by the wife of Rear Admiral Jules James. 
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19 Sep 1943 RELIGIOUS The first Baptist church was organized in Anchorage. (Prior to this date, there had been no Baptist church in Anchorage, and only one Baptist church in all the rest of the state of Alaska.)
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, the leader of the Dambusters raid in 1943, was killed when his aircraft crashed near Steenbergen, the Netherlands. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 The Belgian Parliament met for the first time since May 1940. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 In the Netherlands, British airborne troopers defended against heavy German attacks in Arnhem while other troops captured Veldhoven. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 While flying a Dakota aircraft on a supply run for British troops at Arnhem, the Netherlands, Flight Lieutenant David Lord flew several runs over the drop zone despite the starboard wing being hit and became aflame. Having dropped all supplies, he ordered his crew to bail out while he made no attempt to jump, remaining in the pilot's seat to keep the aircraft steady. The aircraft eventually exploded in mid-war. Lord was later awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross medal. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 Submarine Macabi was launched, sponsored by the wife of Rear Admiral Arthur S. Carpender. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki broke off from Convoy HI-75 and sailed for Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 Ioshima was sunk off Japan by USS Shad. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Essex crossed the Equator in the Pacific Ocean on a southward course. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Cero departed Darwin, Australia for her sixth war patrol. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 Elements of US 68th Composite Wing arrived at Baishiyi Airfield near Chongqing, China, establishing it as a command and control base. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 Joseph Stilwell personally handed Chiang Kaishek a message from Franklin Roosevelt which noted that Stilwell was to be given unrestricted powers in China. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 The Allied Control Commission arrived in Helsinki demanding to see the plans for the internment of Germans in Finland, which Carl Mannerheim knew did not exist. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 Garland and two other British destroyers jointly sank German submarine U-407 off Santorini, Greece. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 A Finnish delegate signed a temporary peace treaty with the Soviet Union in Moscow, Russia. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 Indian 4th Division reached the outskirts of the city of San Marino. 
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19 Sep 1944 WW2 Winston Churchill departed Hyde Park, New York, United States for nearby New York City, where he was to begin his journey back to Britain. 
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19 Sep 1945 WW2 Lord Haw Haw, William Joyce, was sentenced to death in Britain for treason. 
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19 Sep 1945 WW2 The Congress Party of India began negotiating with Britain regarding independence. 
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19 Sep 1945 WW2 The Chinese-American Composite Wing was disbanded after producing 5 American and 3 Chinese aces. 
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19 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Pompon arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 
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19 Sep 1945 WW2 US Navy 7th Fleet sailed into Shanghai, China. 
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19 Sep 1948 RELIGIOUS American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Father, make of me a "crisis man." Make of me a fork, so that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.'
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19 Sep 1949 WW2 The Fairey Gannet aircraft, built to a Royal Navy requirement for a carrier-borne aircraft that could both hunt and kill submarines, took its first flight. 
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19 Sep 1971 RELIGIOUS Death of William F. Albright, 80, American Methodist archaeologist. Professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins for nearly 30 years, he penned over 1,000 articles and books, and led several Near Eastern expeditions which excavated the biblical sites of Gibeah, Bethel and Petra.
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